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    Modernism arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to transformations in Western society including modern industrialization, rapid urbanization, and the horrors of World War I. It rejected Enlightenment thinking and religious belief. Significant modernist works continued through the 1920s and 1930s, though some date the beginning of modernism to 1910 based on Virginia Woolf's comments. Modernism is characterized by experimenting with new forms of art, literature, philosophy and rejecting traditional forms as no longer suitable for modern industrial society.

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    Modernism arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to transformations in Western society including modern industrialization, rapid urbanization, and the horrors of World War I. It rejected Enlightenment thinking and religious belief. Significant modernist works continued through the 1920s and 1930s, though some date the beginning of modernism to 1910 based on Virginia Woolf's comments. Modernism is characterized by experimenting with new forms of art, literature, philosophy and rejecting traditional forms as no longer suitable for modern industrial society.

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    Modernism arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to transformations in Western society including modern industrialization, rapid urbanization, and the horrors of World War I. It rejected Enlightenment thinking and religious belief. Significant modernist works continued through the 1920s and 1930s, though some date the beginning of modernism to 1910 based on Virginia Woolf's comments. Modernism is characterized by experimenting with new forms of art, literature, philosophy and rejecting traditional forms as no longer suitable for modern industrial society.

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    Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes,
    arose from wide-scale and transformations in Western society during the late 19th and
    early 20th centuries. Among the factors that shaped modernism were the development
    of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by reactions
    of horror to World War I. Modernism also rejected the certainty
    of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.

    It is debatable when the modernist literary movement began, though some have chosen
    1910 as roughly marking the beginning and quote novelist Virginia Woolf, who declared
    that human nature underwent a fundamental change "on or about December 1910". But
    modernism was already stirring by 1902, with works such as Joseph Conrad's (1857–
    1924) Heart of Darkness, while Alfred Jarry's (1873–1907).

    Modernism 1920s and 1930s


    Significant modernist works continued to be created in the 1920s and 1930s, including
    further novels by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Robert Musil ('Man without qualities'),
    and Dorothy Richardson. The American modernist dramatist Eugene O'Neill's career
    began in 1914, but his major works appeared in the 1920s and 1930s and early 1940s.

    Modernism, in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the
    traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social
    organization, activities of daily life, and sciences, were becoming unsuitable to their tasks
    and outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an developing
    fully industrialized world.

    Characteristics:
    1. The stability and tranquility of Victorian civilization were rapidly becoming a thing of
    the past.
    2. The beginnings of a new paradigm between first the sexes, and later between
    different cultural groups.
    3. The beginning of the distinction between high art and low art.

    4. The sophisticated intellectuals looked upon the new popular literature with
    disrespect.
    The concern with the inner self and consciousness.
    5. The modernist intellectuals see decline and growing separation of the individual.

    Literary modernism, or modernist literature, has its origins in the late 19th and
    early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a very
    self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose
    fiction. Modernists experimented with literary form and expression, as exemplified
    by Ezra Pound's maxim to "Make it new." This literary movement was driven by a
    conscious desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new
    feelings of their time. The horrors of the First World War saw the fundamental
    assumptions about society reviewed.

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